Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

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.

I love being not cool.

I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

I've been working since I was 9, and I've never known a life without a film set.

I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health.

If you want to save, put money into superannuation, you will never find a better savings vehicle.

Hold up." Leo stepped forward, wagging his Wii controller. "Did you just call my a ship a monstrosity? I KNOW you didn't that.