"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."

"Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act...The sea…"

"My mother was mistrustful of the education system, so it was all right with her if we didn't go to school. She was taking us to Truffaut films, and I was busy getting through a Knut Hamsun book or som…"

"This is the positive aspect of British opposition to entry into the Community – the breadth and depth of the people's conviction that in no foreseeable future could they in this sense form one elector…"

"One has to see a painter in his own place to get an idea of his worth. I went back there and I appreciate in a new light the paintings that I had seen in the Museum and that had struck me as middling.…"