"Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom."

"I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say."

"A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly."

"My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling."

"When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won."

"But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination."

"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."

"I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do."