The novel is rescued life.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

You cannot become the greatest without at least a gr- and a test inside of you

You assumed whatever was vivid to yourself was vivid to others, and vice versa, but she was going to make him spell it out, for the first time in either of their lives.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

There's only one head bigger than Tony Greig's - and that's Birkenhead

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph.

But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.

You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.