It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.

...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

Learn always but never appear to be learning.

I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.