Who wants to live to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long life sustained by fear, caution and perpetual medical surveillance

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge

The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean / when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.