The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

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.

Stop existing and start living!

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.

That's why I'm a success, it's because I don't middle in other people's lives.

To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.

Whether you say you can't or you can, you're right.