The artist secretes nostalgia around life.

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.

People will laugh at anything, except their own moronic self.

The world is a stage where we come to play and go.

I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.

Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in front of people after doing that for a whole year.

We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is better and too much is just right."

One of the best ways to celebrate righteous history is to make more of it, make more righteous history!

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.