a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd, But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world.

Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.

Cocaine made me talk forever. The most nonsensical rubbish that you could ever think of.

43.7 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

A road that does not lead to other roads always has to be retraced, unless the traveller chooses to rust at the end of it.

Oh no. Oh God. I couldn't possibly be so stupid." "Don't limit yourself. You can be anything you wish.