I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.

he [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying.

In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action.

And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.

For their abuse of [the Black African] race, the whites will be cursed, unless they repent.

Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.

I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary.

For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.

The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower

I want to be a giving woman and just a nice person in general.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.