Edith Sitwell

I think it’s the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.

People don’t like when you point out to them and remind them that they’re not very smart.

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

The things you own end up owning you.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourselves.

Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.

I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what’s going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

I’ve sworn never to read any reviews ever again except those that are pointed out to me as nice ones. I would say that most of us who are considered in the artist realm just take it so terribly, and, you know, it can kill ya!