I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

The primary thing that determines how effective your life is how you carry out your calling

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring.

I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.

Losing love is like a window in your heart.

A mental healer may be a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist may or may not be a mental healer.

You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.