Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

I had a little dog and my dog was very small....Of all the treasures that were mine, I loved him most of all.

Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.

Nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that it is now time to do something else.

The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.

My love came back to me Under the November tree Shelterless and dim. He put his hand upon my shoulder, He did not think me strange or older, Nor I, him.

University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.

I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real.

There aren't any moral victories.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

Enlightenment is awakened awareness.

[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

Myrnin: ‘Have we been introduced?’ Frank: ‘Probably not. Why, you asking me out, sweetheart?’ Myrnin: ‘You’re not my type, darling.

FOOVIEW (foo' view) n. The ability of a dog to inflict guilt from any angle in the room while he watches his master eat.

We're going out to play all the places where people might want to see us, because next time we might not just think about hitting every market or how we can make the most money.