The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

When coming to the end of an interview: 'You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality'.

Don't do housework: after a few years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

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

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.