I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.

And anyone will tell you that's the whole point. You want to meet someone who likes the same things you do, and who likes you most when you're most being yourself.

He kissed her for an eternity, which was fine, because heaven had eternities to burn. Then he kissed her for another.

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No one can tell you your own secret.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Owning a property is great as that's my base and the centre of my family life.

The world is a diamond cut from our surprise.

[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.