Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way.

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

You can cease to be influenced by people who tease you... Just neglect their helps and elevate your steps... You can do it!

The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer.

You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it but you can recognize it.

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98 or $1,000. If it isn't money, it isn't nothing.

People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.

There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality.