I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.

Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant. No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Dear me, I am not certain quite That even now I've got it right.

Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!

The most important decision that we can make in our lives is the decision to be happy.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

But in the end, I suppose, we only have one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.

Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

I was very shy and very reserved as a child, very, very introvert.

A good piece of art raises questions.