"Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains."

"Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it."

"All experience is subjective."

"It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future."

"Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art."

"The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone."

"I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not."

"I've always loved music. I listen to music the way a lot of actors watch movies."