Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?

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.

Look around and see the wonderful beauty in the world around you.

All religions are born from individual experiences of divine awakening, not from some books.

The sooner the rebirth, the prettier the corpse.

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

Things hurt and then don't hurt and hurt again.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

I drink because I'm thirsty.

Progress is mostly the product of rogues.