I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

when you're cool for twenty, you get paid for twenty-one.

Come on then, I will swear to study soTo know the thing I am forbid to know- Berowne

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

The problem is that when we speak of plan Bs, we already negate the possibility of moving on with plan A.

She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

You're never too worried as a captain, when you know Rahul Dravid's still out there.