Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

All great art contains an element of the irrational.

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have become or wicked in our eyes.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended.

There's a champion in all of us, it's how you choose to find it.

It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.