The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.

Reality is what one does not perceive when one perceives it.

Life’s biggest enemy is time. It kills us slowly as the illusion changes.

The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72)

A strong wind was blowing and it felt really very cold and seemed so unfamiliar and bizarre. But the trees remembered me. They bowed gently in the breeze…and called me nearer, welcoming me.

The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last.

What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.

The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.