Sheep with a nasty side.

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.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must, ' The youth whispers, 'I can.

A man or woman becomes happy by choosing happiness every day.

I may be taller than her on my knees. Does she need a man she can climb?

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

I used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials.

If it's going to be, it's up to me.

I don't buy into the idea that you're not supposed to rock & roll after a certain date. Maybe I should be in Bellevue, but I'm just having a good time.