If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

Real life seems to have no plots.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

Tell few about your dreams and show the rest in the way you make a life with it.

Focusing on the past is only a barricade to the future. Once you overcome that barricade, the possibilities are endless.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

Between the money and the illegal merchandise, Bones was getting millions. No wonder he laughed at my salary. -Cat

Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?

Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.

I forgot how it feel like to have the top of my foot hurt so bad from kicking people on the face.

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.