Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.

No moral value is greater than humanity.

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?

Take life seriously but none of the people in it.