I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

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

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

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.

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

What will survive of us is love.

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?"Simon raised his eyebrow in response."Well, aside from mine of course, " Jace said. "And I'm pretty sure my blood is fan-tastic.

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

Uncertainty is one of government recipes.

Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.

Accepting both the opportunity and the responsibility evokes a great deal of humility.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.