A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.

Monsters, show me the monsters: these people out on the street. My people.

As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.

My mother and I are big domestic violence advocates.

England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.

I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.

Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.