It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if the shop is not one's own.

Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

To make one, there must be two.