In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

If you can't explain why someone should pay attention to what you're saying, maybe you shouldn't be saying it.

It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is. What do you want?

My priority will be making sure my family is happy and settled.

If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache

In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.

I'm happy to be considered desirable. I love it!