In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.

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.

The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.

At times there will be fire

I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'

The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.

I think we all appreciate it now just how lucky we are to be in a band like Judas Priest.

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.

If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.