I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel read 2 000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

As a young boy I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

Patience is necessary and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

That was a time when I did love music I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential so immediately.

If you woke up each morning and immediately dwelt on your ills what sort of a day could you look forward to?

They still have some money and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run.