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.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

One of the things you learn about being married is that being with someone day in and day out can make you so comfortable that you risk losing your tact.

Create positive life with positive thoughts and positive words.

It's never crowded when you walk on your own path.

Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

Work and pray, live on hay, youll get pie in the sky when you die.

So Ahmadinejad wants to be the first Iranian in space - wasn't he there just last week? 'Iran launches monkey into space.'

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.