If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.

The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The trick in foraging for a tooth lost in coffee grounds is not to be misled by the clumps. The only way to be sure is to rub each clump between your thumb and index finger, which makes a mess of your hands.

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.