Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

Nurture a desire to be free from the clock.

Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.

Of course, there were other sorts of literature -- theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical -- but they were just dry wanks.

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.