All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.

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.

What are you thinking?""Just how different everything down there is now, you know, now that I can see.""Everything down there is exactly the same, " he said. "You're the one that's different.

If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.

Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?

Let me use their own terminology against them. They aborted a child in the 200th trimester.

We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out.

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

May we understand that fear of failure is worse than failure itself

Ingratitude to man is ingratitude to God.