But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

The difference between vampires and angels? Angels are real.

We mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.

A good leader needs to know how to follow.

Scientists are always skeptics.

Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready.

In the moment you ask, and believe and know you already have it in the unseen, the entire Universe shifts to bring it into the seen.

Impact is more important than method.

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day.