I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, they are not there, what you see is the memory of what once was, once upon a time.

Somebody will be exhibiting a bunch of bananas in a gallery, and they'll get me on to talk dirty about it.

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."

You know I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters?

If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic.

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.