Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.