The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

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.

Instead of thinking outside the box, Get rid of the box.

Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore

Hillary Clinton didn't go to Louisiana. She didn't go to Mexico. She was invited.

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!

I can really only can record at home.

The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.

We are only as blind as we want to be.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.