I no longer cared about survival...I merely loved.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

I don't know how Hollywood sees me.

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what's really in there, and they'll do anything - as well as make it up - to get it.

You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.

I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.