I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

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.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.

Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?

The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

The only way we can win is if we leave before the job is...done.

Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst

Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I'm really not.

I can get into politics. I'm a pretty straight guy for this business. I have a pretty healthy outlook.