Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

Beware of men bearing flowers.

Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.

These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.