“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.

I am I because my little dog knows me.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

This joy you feel is life.

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.

You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.