I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.

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.

If you don't want me to attend the patient I'll go.''But she can't see a doctor now.''Why not?''She isn't well.

I knew I was going to do something great. I knew I wasn't going to die 20 miles from where I was born, no 20 miles from where I lived.

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

Never be afraid of the future, for it brings wonderful things.

For me, no matter how serious the subject is, when I try to write about it, I have to write about it from a comic point of view. It's just the way it comes out.

I'm one of the many people for whom coffee helps but often, inattention is a symptom of something else: for example, that you're not getting six to eight hours of sleep.

I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our 52 states.

What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.

I would definitely describe myself as a workaholic.

Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.