Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

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.

Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.

If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without it. Both on the physical plain, and the soul plain. Poetry helps us endure.

I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.

Life is messy, and it's okay if you are too! We all screw up, that doesn't have to define us.

An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.

When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through