Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.

Every one is as God made him and oftentimes a good deal worse.

My husband has no desire to work with me. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects.

A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.

My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

As far as possible, I want nothing more than to don my training gi and teach Karate.

I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.

In sum, the struggle for our future is . . . the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world.