...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.