… my words are lovewhich willfully parades inits room, refusing to move.

...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it...

… and I’ll be happy here and happy there, fullof tea and tears

willow trees, willow trees they remind me of DesdemonaI'm so damned literaryand at the same time the waters rushing past remindme of nothing

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.

Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.

Read two old books for every new one.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

Winning isn't everything. It's the money you make doing it that's everything.

Having a book is actually like a great master - helping to build a universe and unify work - especially in my pictures where there is such a strong signature, yet with a set of rigorous rules to it.

There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.