Horace Walpole Quotes

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great!

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I don't run behind authority.

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

I really rebel against authority.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.

We're the guys who, if someone says you really shouldn't do an episode making fun of Scientologists, we say, 'Whatever.' Someone says, 'They might come try to burn your house down,' we say, 'We'll just get another one.'

I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.