I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.

Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

Music in war is a candle in the darkness

The money is too good to say no.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.

It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.

Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions.

All of my writing is God-given.

I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.

When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.