When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.
Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.
When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.
The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.