It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.

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.

Time, Ms. McHenry, " Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing

The spirit of divinity is the spirit of being.

The saying goes, if you love something, let it go. I always though it was better to just shoot the damn thing so it'd never go anywhere.

I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.

At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and they found the freshman class did better

What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

She would not stop until she beat the devil.

There's nothing pure about capitalism.

It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.