The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

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.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason

The words sounded like a mournful incantation.

I don't like being best man at a wedding 'cause there's no way to prove it.

I've been way too blessed. Had too much fun, too many rewards.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

It’s okay, Kriss. Have some pie,” Natalie offered.

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.