I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.

The Finn is the most watery person in Europe... Here people take baths that last three or four hours and steep their bodies in water right down to their most secret selves.

There can be no great love without exclusivity.

In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What's the worst thing that could happen? But you're playing it for comic effect. It's a similar muscle being used with Black Mirror.

I love having an open seat next to me on the train. What's even better is when my seat is open too because I just stayed home.

"I'm a new song and you're just a remix."

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

Seems like people could behave themselves without making a calculation regarding how likely or unlikely they are to kill other people.

Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have the reassurance that our course is right.