People tend to be more tofu-like, able to absorb whatever environment they're dropped into. But where does the adaptability end and your actual personality begin?

You should never wear anything you can't afford to lose.

A friend is as it were a second self.

I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you'd have as much chance communicating with people.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

Until death it is all life.

El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.

I'm a lager drinker. I'm quite a stupid lager drinker. I do like my lager and mashed potatoes.