I didn't really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.

Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted.

I think that as far as language goes I'm an American, I'm afraid, my accent is American, my way of talk is an American way of talk, I'm an old-fashioned American. That's probably one of the reasons why I'm in England now and why I'll always stay in England.

I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.