Art is the triumph over chaos.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.

If I had time, I would become timeless.

Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.

Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

I was always working, so I would get reading done very late at night a lot of times.

And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the Army, so he could help me in that direction.

The mere absence of war is not peace.

Good teams focus on the task at hand. They don't care what's happened the last 13 days, they worry about today and they worry about getting better. That's what good teams do.

I'm addicted. I'm addicted to golf.

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.