By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.

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.

In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend!

A performance must capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment.

Maybe not here and now, but somewhere, someday.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.

Nobody ever thought about having to protect the passengers from the pilots.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Only the soul that loves is happy

I never imagined, never imagined I would have the opportunity to be governor of the state that I love.

I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.