Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

`When asked,"How do you write ?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time.'

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.