It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Everything human is alien to me.

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

I’m not a great preacher, and I don’t claim to be a great preacher . . . I’m an ordinary preacher, just communicating the Gospel in the best way I know how.

For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.

I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Life is painful to be meaningful.

I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it.

I'm not about hurting the person I'm with.

You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.