Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

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.

Do not become more useful than God.

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a marine biologist. As you go through the grind and the distraction of a career, it's easy to lose sight of your dreams.

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

At the end of each year I make a list of my mistakes and it's pretty friggin long.

I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.

I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.

I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.