The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

An athlete must have a sound and trained body, and only after, indulge in sport he prefers.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or waitresses to ask for autographs.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.

Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.