Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.

People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.

As long as I am on this little planet I expect to love a lot of people and I hope they will love me in return.

I hate a conscience. It's always making you feel low down and disreputable. I don't believe I will say anything to my children about one, and let them have some peace.

... the place you're in is pretty near what you're fitted to fill. Otherwise you'd get out and fill another.

What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!

When you can't change a thing, don't let it change you.