It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

The end is in the beginning.