I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anything else shows the dirt so in London.

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.

When you give a present, you're giving with your heart.Never give thinking of money, or your gift will fall apart.

Trust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and absolute. This is the magic place, the mad place at the spark gap between word and world.

Even though i have no other choice but to marry you... I Just want to make it clear that i love and will always love Matt Hardy

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.

History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.

David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision.

You have to like the characters you play.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.