From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.

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.

Years ago a black man spoke about love and was crucified. Then Martin Luther King spoke about equality and was shot. Can you SEE why?

Life is full of endless possibilities.

[His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse.

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

Do good and throw it in the sea; if God doesn't see it, the fishes will.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

When you notice a fault in your neighbour, search for the same in yourself.

With goals you can create the future in advance.

A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect

The world has found lenses on its nose without knowing whom to thank