After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them.

To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.

Literature is the expression of society.

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.

There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.

Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine.

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.

Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.

It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed!

When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.

It’s a sad fact that some people are only remembered once they’re dead.

The secret to teamwork is an outward mindset.

Think for now.... when you reach where you wanted, think there and there and finally you will be there where you wanted.

I don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.

If something cannot go on for ever, it will stop

Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.

Boring people don't know they're boring. That's the problem with boring people.

Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.

Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.