We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

Life […] is scientific, that’s what it is.

The thing is--fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

Lying there in the darkness, he knew he was an outcast. " 'Cos I had some sense.

... People were never quite what you thought they were.

The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life

Jack looked around for understanding, but found only respect.

I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given.

You can’t do everything for everyone, not even for yourself. It’s okay to ask for help when you need it.

Don't tie your success to anything other than what's inside you

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

When it comes to terror, reality’s got nothing on the power of the imagination[.]

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

When animals age, some humans see them as less valuable, less important and less entertaining.

You have your face bare; I am all face.

Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.

And though circuitous and obscureThe feet of Nemesis how sure!