The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.

There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.