But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things.

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.