In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

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.

Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It's the human condition

That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.

Great actions speak great minds.

The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.

Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.

Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.