It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.