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.

A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.

There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.

I would love to be considered Zen, but I'm not sure that I am. Maybe just with animals and babies and in tough situations.

Outside of performing, (a comedian) is someone who is analyzing life, thinking about it and trying to be observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel on the outside looking in.

My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.