I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money.

Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?

It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

Everybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed.

I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me?

If they need my C.V., they don’t know my work.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

Ýou can do the work by God’s grace.

Why live unless you live large? Death is a reality, always present, waiting, with that in mind, live today, it is everything you own.

The irony of a writer is he/she craves privacy to pen words that crave the public.

As facing the sea reveals the skyand facing the sky reveals the seafacing my soul reveals your soul

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Apply yourself everyday to just becoming a little bit better.

Only on the third class tourist class passengers' deck was it a sultry overcast morning, but then if you do things on the cheap you must expect these things.