Never economize on luxuries.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.

First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain.

If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.

Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie it is often better to stick to the truth.

Check thyself before thy wreck thyself.

Why would you want to invest with a guy whose thought process says, "If a second layer of fees is good, then let's add a third layer.

Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.

We heed no instincts but our own.

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.