All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.

I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.

When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it.

... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.

Any game becomes boring when it lacks thrills.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.