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

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.

Be yourself, don't try to be someone else. And the right people will love you for who you are.

The more you keep your religious beliefs concealed from others, the lesser religious conflicts occur in the society.

I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

Women like jewelry. They're like racoons: show them some shiny stuff and they'll follow you home.

I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

We try to be open to letting anything change in the moment.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.