I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

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.

Those who know who one should die knew how one should live.

How can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?

...but there are stories that cannot begin at their beginning, and perhaps this is one of them.

A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

The greatest fear in life is not of death, but unsolicited change.

The car as we know it is on the way out.

I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.

Tim Kaine is your friend's dad who catches you smoking weed at a sleepover and doesn't rat you out but talks to you about brain development.