Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

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.

Memory revises me.

Act for the joy and beauty of action not for the fruits of creation.

Jesus Christ died on the cross for everything you are afraid of.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy

Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon.

After all, how often do we get a second chance?

She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.

I feel that luck is a product of hard work.