It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves.

There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.

The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know. We will realize it the moment we open our eyes. We don't have to make it a Paradise-it is one. We have only to make ourselves fit to inhabit it. The man with the gun, the man with murder in his heart, cannot possibly recognize Paradise even when he is shown it.

I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.