The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

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.

One of the main keys of discovering your gift is question

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

An Ice Age is coming and I welcome it as much-needed changing. I see no solution to our ruination of earth except for a drastic reduction of the human population.

My father wasn't absolutely delighted. He wanted me to become a lawyer. I studied law, but I thought the shoe business was more exciting.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.

The churches must realize that when they take a position on a political event that they must accept the rules of the game.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.