We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.

I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

All isn't well with the world.

We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.

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