The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Education is not a destination, but it is a curious journey to enjoy the beauty of life.

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

It's just us, right?'Hannah walks to her. She touches her cheek and finds her eyes. There is a desperate light hanging on her pupils. A flicker of passion, a flicker of shame.'It's just us.

Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.

We live in a world we ourselves create.

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.