The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.

Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.

Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.

Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

It's a dangerous dog that doesn't bark.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.

Time cannot be spurred on like a horse.

Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.

Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.

... a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane.

Life is a passing moment.

Whether we are famous or not, we all need God. We also need other people.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

I surely haven't only dealt with film people. As a lawyer, I also fought against evictions, or worked on leases - the unglamorous side of the business.

The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

For the LORD will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself.

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.