Tracey Ullman

You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about! You’re crazy!

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

“You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It’s a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

Pies, para que los quiero si tengo alas para volar. (“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.”)

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.

They’re different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I’m in.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children… the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

I like to surprise myself.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

If you don’t know what it is you want – and I mean specifically – then you won’t even know when you have it.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

The quickest way from A to B is not always at the most feverish pace.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.