The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

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.

As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.

Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom.

Maximize that which gives you joy: friends, hobbies, religion, etc

To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.

It's fun to be in California. The police are kind of weird here. They ask you stupid questions. 'Do you know why I pulled you over?' Because I have pot in the glove compartment?

But I'm a racer, that's what I've always been. I just want someone to put me in a car and leave me there.

The followers must feel besieged.