Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

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.

What we dream repeatedly, we become.

When you get abandoned by someone, that's the moment when you've truly lost faith in them.

The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud.

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

I think Red Sox fans have always been good to me; they've treated me well.

Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is.

If you are, consolidating at a lower interest rate can help you pay off your debt faster. But if there's even a small chance that you'll spiral back into debt, it's not for you.

I'm not a technical person. It's not something I personally do love. I'm actually terrified of it, and that is what's interesting to me about it.

I eat almost no lunch. I have a big dinner but I don't have a big lunch.