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.

everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.

People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

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.

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