No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him, And all their ministers attend on him.

Laugh and make the best of every situation. Understand that life is not perfect.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

Where there is no heart there is no art.

But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

Life is so fast and it can change in an instant.

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

It felt really good to kind of find my voice and say stuff, and to be funny, hopefully.

...paranormal phenomena such as apports, prediction, telepathy, dowsing and the like can be explained by an extended physics as potentially real effects.