You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!

Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.