"I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be."

“If you're ever making a television show, don't cast smart actors because they are just a pain in the ass. The moment you start to bullshit them you've lost them, so you have to either know what you're talking about or when you don't talk to them.”

“I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.”

“A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.”

Source : "Changing rooms" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2002.

“Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren’t really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken?”

“I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”

“The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.”

“The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave. To religion alone do European women owe their liberty.”

Source : Jacques Henri Bernardin de SAINT PIERRE, Henry HUNTER (D.D.) (1830*). “Studies of Nature, translated from the French, ... Carefully abridged, with a copious index, by L. T. Rede”, p.489

“Error is the price we pay for progress.”