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.

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

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.

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.

Those who have made it to the top have only done so through hard work and time conversion.

The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things it can kill.

As long as I’ve known her, she’s seen the very best version of me, even when I didn’t believe that guy existed.

I remember as a kid being cold a lot, and hungry sometimes. Wed go to bed with just cornbread and milk, and I remember wearing shoes with holes in the bottom. I remember having twine for shoestrings.

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.

We lost the connection between the entertainment world and the neighborhoods.

Entertain me, heroes of Olympus. Give me a reason to do more." Bacchus to Percy and Jason

If you can't see the bright side, why ya just need to polish the dull one.