I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.

Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic.

Somewhere on the Earth tonight, my Tylla, there is a Man with a Lever, which, when he pulls it, Will Save The World. The man is now unemployed. His switch gathers dust. He himself plays pinochle.

I'm not speaking metaphorically, plants that you have in your house, or if you've ever made friends with a tree somewhere, there is a moment that these beings can aid you.

Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.

A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.

We have time, there's no big rush.

When you're being told that you're good at something, you start to believe them and then you forget about your hopes and dreams.

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.