We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

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.

[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.

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

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

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

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