"The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances."

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn."

"One of the things I like about living in the country is that I can say anything I like and nobody hears me but the cows."

"I usually get my best ideas when I'm eating an apple."