At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

Thoughts are more alive than you are. Without thoughts, are you there?

Hell is a choice because salvation is available to anyone who seeks it.

When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!

The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes!

Nothing's ever entirely new. It's more a matter of what gets picked up from the past at each time.

Sometimes we're the big game in town. Other times, we're kind of a side show. (on Manchester City)

I know, you love me and soon you will see, you were meant for me and I was meant for you

Every conflict reflects what each person most needs to learn in that moment.

When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.

We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity.