Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

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.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

You cannot study the same day of a test, and expect to do your very best.

One does not have to prove a negative. One should assume a negative.

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

The mind is infinite. It is not relegated to the brain or to thought or to emotion. It is made up of an endless series of realities that stretch on into infinity.

Life is a game, kid! It all depends on how you play!

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed." "The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy," says Marcus. "How do you stop conflict without conflict?

One thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart.