Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Always remember, difficult situations are thrust upon those who have the power to influence events.

The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

The only way to shut out the voice of god and the angels is to act out addictively whether it’s alcohol or food or drugs, or behaviors...

Time - the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.

Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

I'm your biggest fan, California, I'm coming home

I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed