I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.

I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

I'm attracted to the past.

Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!

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