I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?

Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.

The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.

Music is admitted under the skin without permission.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

In the field of knowledge is all possibility.

To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.