All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.