Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

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.

If we still advise we shall never do.

More than ever, I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity to cope with change.

You can't become a millionaire until you think like one.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.

I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I'm back for more.

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty.