Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.

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.

Sometime rhetoric was just another way to lie and impress persons, and he knew this

It's hard being quiet when one's imagination is so loud

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.

I don't think for a second that I'm the best at anything, but I know I'm really good at quite a lot of things because I work hard.

None but God is wise.

An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.

Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear