Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

A circle is the longest distance to same point.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.

All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.