A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.

Death is the ultimate negative.

The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me out. I can expand my universe without you. 'She walks into beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies, and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?