My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.

After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.