Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

I am not a certified idiot—" "Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence," Will muttered.

I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

If you're a fish and you want to be a fish-stick, you have to have very good posture.

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

Boys turns girls into such idiots.