One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?

Be Vast, Solitary, Down to Earth and Firm

The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.

Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.

The more rapidly the water moves, the lighter it seems.

What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.

Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.

It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future.

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.