"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."

"Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

"There's nothing more exciting than science. You get all the fun of sitting still, being quiet, writing down numbers, paying attention. Science has it all."

"Nothing begins and nothing ends."

"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character."

"What I wanted to do was work with kids with behavioral and emotional handicaps. It's a puzzle, learning each child, because each child is different."

"Nudists have no fashion sense."

"Chastity is the greatest form of perversion."