After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.

Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.

To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.

Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled

Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.

...It is only now that memory works both ways. Which of us dreamed it - those from the country of nights five times as warm and as cold, or those who turned away and woke?

The devout life does not solely entail living as a monk or ascetic, though that is fine. The devout life requires bringing God into all things.

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative.

Every unmarried man is looking for a wife. They just don't always know it.

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

We've got Chinese, white, black and mixed; but remember that our colors are cheap, for after many years of contracts and tricks nobody's purity runs very deep.

The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.