Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

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.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

There is no question- love is the answer

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.

Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

Don’t lose a woman that has seen your flaws and still love you.

You don't choose the theatre; The theatre choses you

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Killing ain't fair, but somebody gotta do it.