Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

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.

I yearned for everything long gone.

Every startup is a SME but every SME is not a startup.

Spending time being can be just as, if not more, fulfilling as spending time doing.

Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence.

If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.

Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

We're running out of rich people in this country.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be.