Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

I don't give a damn what people think.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

Great lovers have made great sacrifices.

Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.

Once in a while i am struckall over again... by just how blue the sky appears .. on wind-played autumn mornings, blue enoughto bruise a heart.

All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.

From listening and silence can be learn a lot of, but these skills to be learn that's the hard and complicated work...

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

If a player is not interfering with play then he shouldn't be on the pitch.

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team