It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

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.

These dogs didn't bother to bond with us, but stuck out their paws, not to shake hands but so we could slit their wrists and get it the hell over with. (p.51)

What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together

Be kind to yourself, to others and everything around you.

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure, it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?

I've got my own targets... To establish myself in the team and once you are a regular for Liverpool then England, recognition comes from that and hopefully this will prove the case.

Ten thousand years as Intercontinental Champion, Oooooh yeeeah!

I think there are ghosts. I haven't seen or heard anything. I've definitely felt something, but it's not scary.

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.