“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”

“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.”

“I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.”

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”

“What other people think of me is none of my business.”