My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.

If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.

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.