Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

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 fear of God is an insane idea. God is love and “there is no fear in love, because perfect love casts out all fear.

He calls me desperate (on my tombstone)I hope poetic license will allow: HUNGRY

I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles.

Kill the head, the body will die.

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.

By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later.

The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!