Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.

Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.