I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than capitalists are. They're the most materialistic people in the world. What they're actually living for is material things. The irony of that is that in communist countries there isn't anything to buy.

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.

I never had a rejection slip in my life.

I guess if you're that thin and that small you don't need to take up too much space or breathe that much air. You just keep on going.

Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky