A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives 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.

What is important may or may not be important but what is thought to be important is indeed important.

Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations.

Hillary Clinton is a fighter, she's out there, she's tough.

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.