The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

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.

I feel the pain—everywhere.

While the whole world was asleep, the caterpillar was awake, working towards becoming a butterfly.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

if you want more of Jesus, give Him more of yourself

Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

I never give too much thought to the idea of universality.

I have no story. My story goes from day to day.

There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.