men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols.

People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.

society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!

Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.

Death is the last fact of which we can be certain.

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!

I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind.

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you?

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.