oh how television diminishes everything.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

I really don't like the city anymore. You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It's too tumultuous. It's too crazy.

I think if I weren't married to [Barack Obama], I'd want him to be in there.

I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.

I love lying in darkness.