I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation

An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

Speak little, do much.

There's always things that you know about that nobody else, because everybody's life is different. So you write about what you know. That's number one.

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

It is easier to be grateful for the things we have than to the people who have helped us get them.

Terrorism is everywhere. You think of the tribal terrorism of some African countries.

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.