. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.

We just felt like what we were doing would be appreciated by someone else. We've enjoyed it, but it's nice to pass it on and not just put it away in a drawer somewhere.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.

Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.