If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

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.

But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?

When you have nothing to show up for having lived for many decades, you are likely to borrow other people’s credibility which won’t fit! Live like you!

When people speak, listen carefully and pay particular attention to what they are not saying.

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.

He that lives well sees a farre off.

David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.