It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.

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.

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.

Machines are non living things, but they still can absorb human attitudes.

I have no plan except to take care of the people I love.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.

You might be a redneck if people hear your car long before they see it.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness

Defend yourselves! If people don't defend their rights, they lose them.

I don't always want a big meal after work - just some crisps and wine!

I made three works about men in my life. But I had much more than three men. I never wrote about them.