I am a great husband because I am very afraid she may kill me

The good thing about a self-help book is that if you misunderstand something then it won't mock you.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.

The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.

The State Department is essentially... I was going to use the word useless. But I don't know if that's correct.

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.