You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.

What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.

Be Weird, at least you will have a unique Personality.

True autonomy is preceded by the experience of being dependent. True liberation can be found only beyond the deep ambivalence of infantile dependence.

I'm a true believer that if someone bothers you, you care.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light.

There is no shortcut to grieving.

Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.