The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

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.

Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don’t.

I pissed away over ten million dollars On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I'm back

Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.

All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.

It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

Art is what is irresistible.