‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you’re good at.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

I don’t get acting jobs because of my looks.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.