Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

Over time, if you want rights, you have to also show that you can use them responsibly and that you can build a positive world in the online space, and that's also very important.

When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.

I think we ought to call (Republicans who sign the Norquist no tax pledge) exactly what they are - they are traitors and they don't deserve to hold elective office in this country.

I believe I'm not in the press, just in terms of being photographed and paparazzi all the time, or looking for that sensationalistic type of side or anything like that, so I keep things very quiet.

Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

And I have a couple swimsuit calendars I did that are coming out.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.