My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears.

I think it is all a matter of love.

A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer.

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.