It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something

At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.

Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.

Work is the only device I know of.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.

I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.