Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.

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.

Bring forth a spiritual idea that will never fade.

Two things I ask of my God today. That my faith be hoisted high like a kite up in the sky and my fear be buried deeply like a carcass into the soil.

...I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair...

But there was no going back to that idyllic time when only one god wanted to kill me.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

When somebody says, "You can't," I say, "Why not?"

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

Sam: “I—it’s—I’m not an animal.

The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.

Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.