A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Light is not out there. It is in your heart always ready to show you the path.

I always knew I'd go to space.

The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

I come from an improvisational background so I'm used to playing. I'm used to not knowing what exactly is going to come out.

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is 'objective,' all else is propaganda.

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.

I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.