Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.

Flowers are words even a baby can understand.

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

I'm too old to make drawings.

I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.

I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.