The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?

It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

Everybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed.

I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me?

If they need my C.V., they don’t know my work.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.

[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.

When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.

I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.

Good is often the enemy of best.

I think confidence is very important, as well as a positive attitude; you should never give up; just maintain a positive mentality whenever you perform; you should go for it.

Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write.

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.