Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Maggie Dove wanted to be a beacon of light. She dreamed of being the sort of person who made others laugh, calmed crying babies, soothed wild dogs, inspired hopefulness.

No one is fine on his own. People just say they are.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

Time is not kind to everything.

Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.

Bridal is always about who you are as a person and as a woman and as a lover and as a mate. People always ask me how a woman can pick just one dress. And the funny thing is they always know.