"When you do something beautiful and nobody notices, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps."

"I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field …"

"I always think I should have done it. Presumably, she would have allowed it."

"My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother."

"The price of fame is a lonely life."