As Daffy once said, the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera.

Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.

Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

Coats are my favorite thing, and it's always cold in England. I'm comfortable spending a bit of money if you know you're going to be wearing it 10 years later.

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.