For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.