Loneliness is not lack of company. Loneliness is lack of purpose.

Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.

Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.

Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

For me, it's either you're part of creation or you're part of destruction. It's inexplicable; it's like breathing, and I can't imagine not doing it.

When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.

The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner.

I've got to be comfortable when I'm on stage.

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.