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.

I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.

Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

If we are to begin to try and understand life as it will be in 1960, we must begin by realizing that food, clothing and shelter will cost as little as air

It's quite quick for me to know if I want to play a character or not.

You're not going to get anything politically correct out of me.

School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.

Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.

What's wrong with being number two?

People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it and what you do simply proves what you believe.