I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something... History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.

Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?

To do anything in this world worth doing we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.

Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.

Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.

I'm terrified of performing live.

I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear - something you'll remember more down the road than a shirt.