When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

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.

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

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.

Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.

It is not the business of a Queen to be human.

Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light.

Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.

Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.

We've never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests.

Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.