Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.

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.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

When you think about it, the Big Bang's a big like school, isn't

Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.

I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth.

If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.