Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.

Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

The problem with having evil minions is that minions are stupid.

If there's going to be pain anyway, I'd rather it be the pain of growth rather than the pain of staying stuck.

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.

It's always about a character that I become obsessed with and who refuses to leave me alone.

If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence more people.

I once got hit with a taser at a concert and everyone thought I was dancing. Now I have to do that dance, at every show for the rest of my life, or admit that a taser can damage the Thom Yorke

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.