My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.

A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.

Your neck. I want to kiss it.

Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you.

A great nose may be an indexOf a great soul

Watching other people making friends, everywhere, as a dog makes friends. I mark the manner of these canine courtesies and think, here comes, thank Heaven, another enemy!

When a politician spends a million on himself, we rally and call him a thief. But when a cardinal spends the same amount on his attire, we kneel down and kiss his hand.

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Only humans can cry tears.

People have been asking me if I was going to have kids, and I had puppies instead.

I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.

Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.