For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says, on the star tree, pale with luminousocean leaves.

Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look.

Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think.

The clouds roll on. Silent as sleepwalkers the clouds keep coming from infinity bank behind bank and line after line, and change colors on the earth.

Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement.

Gratitude is an overflowing joy.

Never put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

start something, with a knowledge to end it.

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.