If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

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.

One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.

I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

I am in charity, my children, with all the servants of God.

You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try

No vision issue today is bigger than the question of efficiency versus some combination of innovation and customer service.

No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

I suppose I should understand it [fame] better by this point, but I really don't.

The fashion community has really embraced me, which has been helpful with getting my music out.

This is America, not a banana republic.