The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.

The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

I just try to put the thing out and hope somebody will read it. Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I reply: 'Do you read me?' If they say 'Yes,' I say, 'Do you like it?' If they say 'No,' then I say, 'I don't write for you.'

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.