Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

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.

There is a thrill in relishing the suffering of strangers, and they hide their interest with worried faces.

Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.

No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.

Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.