Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

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.

Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.

No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

Spread ya legs, arch your back. Go up and down, and make it clap.

Thomas Jefferson survives.

I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's truly for the love of the game of basketball.

Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.

The more you love, the more you crave.

I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.

I'm going to do more movies and travel.

Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.