I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

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.

Live daringly with great courage.

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

The temporal heart resonates at whispersFrom a Truth overarchingOf whose countenanceTimeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.

Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.

I want to be like the air. The good-hearted person whose kindness overflows and people realize how important she was to them, once she is gone. I want to be that kind of person.

Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness.

I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.