it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

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.

Happiness is only for a short time then comes sadness which proceeds on overtime

I never left because a part of me will always be in that house...

When we forget our essential similarities, we forget how to get along, and that cannot but lead to prejudice, discrimination, and eventually, conflict.

A king may rule the kingdom but the queen still moves the board.

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

So that's us: processed corn, walking.

My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously.

Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.