I still act. It's in my blood. I'll always be an actor..

That's where the money is, on the road..

No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one..

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration..

In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth..

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any..

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow..

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise..

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt..

The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the com….

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay ….

I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like..

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in t….