A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others.

There was no arguing with blood.

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

Good but rarely came from good advice.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.