One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

YOU are your own guru. YOU are your own soul mate. YOU are powerful. Take the reigns and drive your carriage home to love.

I’ve made it my mission to discover that which is off the beaten track. Somewhere in the undergrowth of the impossible.

You shall not be afraid to hear bad news. God will strengthen you.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things

If I could write a letter to my teenage self I'd probably say something like: "You ain't gonna believe what will become of you."

There’s a massive glitter ball in my head and it has never stopped turning

My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you.

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

If the size of your vision for your life isn't intimidating to you, there's a good chance it's insulting to God.