Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

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.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Egalitarianism trumps elitism. Only a selfish fool will tell you otherwise

The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense.

On the edge of timelessness, hand in hand with you, a sea of flowers caressed.

In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.

I just kind of change, constantly, what my focus is. So whatever is stimulating me or inspiring me at the time is what I focus on.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.