In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

Life gives you what you expect, what you are prepared to put up with or can change.

Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel.

Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I'll deny it!

Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can't be taken away.

If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you.

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.

If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.

I think if somebody does something stupid, it's okay to make fun of them, but [celebrities] have also gotten very conscious about social media, kind of like the Catholic Church in the 1500s.

My mission is healing, pure and simple.

I would love to do a record with Usher.