There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order.

One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?

He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.

Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know that if I didn't go running, I wouldn't go the next day either. It's not in human nature to take unnecessary burdens upon oneself, so one's body soon becomes disaccustomed. It mustn't do that. It's the same with writing. I write every day so that my mind doesn't become disaccustomed.

I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural.

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.