I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

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.

Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

No weapon formed against you will prosper. But make no mistake, the weapon will be formed.

The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.

...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

This was in 2004, and it told me that President [Barack] Obama intended to be very careful and noncontroversial in addressing race matters. I

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

I think that religion is an integral part of human needs, but the question also is how you understand religion.

Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.