Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

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.

There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.

I love my own graceful gracious gracesensitive by sensitivity as can be.Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansReligion of Blue CircleOctober 21, 2016

I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and man's wits. (...) And I believe there once were dragons. I've seen their skulls, after all.

When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.