A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Love is like slamming into a wall of concrete and asking to do it all again once the rubble is cleared.

Stay away from her.""Okay.""Keep your hands off her.""I'll try."He scowled at me."I will, " I said.

An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.

You have to love with an open hand. The heart is like a bird and you have to let this bird fly freely, you cannot possess it.

What's the point of being young if you're not going to make new things, I wonder?

Your best days are still out in front of you

It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts.

Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.

Let us cultivate our garden.