People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

Man is guaranteed only those rights which he can defend.

‎I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats.

Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens.

Today's worries may become tomorrow's priceless experiences.

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity