My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.

An unshared happiness is not happiness.

When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w/ perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it.

If we speak poorly about that which we do well... people will assume we perform poorly!

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

When I was a child, I had a quiet, protected childhood.

People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.