Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.