Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.

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.

Don’t let the society or your own family or anybody to kill your dreams because your dreams are yourself!

She says the problem with most Christians is that they show up once a week to pray that God's will be done- and when it is, they complain.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

You don’t have to be perfect to have the perfect life.

Getting 'SNL' was pretty amazing, so just to be able to have an eight-year career there and be really happy with everything I did, it was pretty big.

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

There's no other product that changes function like the computer.

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you".