No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

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.

Courage is meant to be strong, while fear is meant to be broken

When bad strikes, most likely you will not get an answer when you ask, “Why?” Your strength must come from having faith that someday the answer will come and then it will all make sense.

We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not.

Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

I think of clothes a lot like costumes. I think of what I wear in real life as being my real life character's costume.

I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.

If you lose yourself, then no one's going to respect or pay attention to anything you have.

Whether you're transgender or not, most of us get to a point in our lives where we can no longer lie to ourselves.

Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.