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

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.

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.

Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

what it is is the memory of a dance a song you heard long ago to hear it is to be young again and for once for once you are happy

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

A joke is a witticism or play on words that’s meant to be funny. I say ‘meant to be’ because most jokes aren’t funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.

I just broke up with my girlfriend because I caught her lying. Under another man.

Of all the jobs I've had, sliming fish was pretty good preparation for life in Washington.

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with.

The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled Are half the birds, and mists lie low, and the sun Is rarely seen, nor strayeth far from his bed; The short days pass unwelcomed one by one.