I had a moral tutor, but never saw him (the only words of his I remember are 'The three pleasures of life -drinking, smoking, and masturbation')

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.

he [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying.

In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing.

Each day should be founded on a purpose and work in harmony with the core reason for your life.

Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

It's beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it's well deserved.

Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

I found the recording sessions very freeing because you can really try things. When you're filming something, if you're improvising a film and you're wasting film and wasting a cameraman's time.

If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.