There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.

You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name.

[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.