The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another interval of final and everlasting truth? Sleep isn't dying, but it is certainly keeping in tough with it.