Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

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.

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.

All great art contains an element of the irrational.

... You are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying...

Watching him walk off was very nearly as absorbing as observing his approach. He walked as all men ought to walk, with a decided swagger to his shoulders.

Quit analyzing me. My crazy needs no definition.

Connecting expands possibilities - in work and in life - for ourselves as well as for others.

Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage.

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.

I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.