Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

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.

Home's where the people you love are. It's about finding the things that matter to you, and holding on to them and taking care of them.

Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving.

Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

You know, it doesn't happen that often that you have the crowd support behind you straightaway from the beginning of the match.

I make a good fried chicken.

Money is a great dignifier.

Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.

Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.

If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.