'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich in raisins.

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.

Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.

Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.

I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.

History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up & do them

It's not easy to play your best for 40 weeks. It happens every year, I don't play well in Rome or Hamburg -- I don't know why -- but then I play well after that.

One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

Just because someone has an extremely sexy voice does not mean they are extremely sexy.

It's important to lighten up a bit!

Corporations are "worms in the body politic"