The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

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.

Never run from the truth. It is always there

Of course I'm out of my mind. It's dark and scary in there.

Don’t we have to live a little first? And read later?

Engineer is the one who thinks Dark Fantasy is a condom and not a biscuit

I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

This 20th win means more to me than the perfect game in 1968.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.