There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style

He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.

That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.

Only when I see myself truly is Gautama Buddha is present in me.

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.

Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.

As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.

Your imagination is the movie trailer for your future, so nurture it always. Logic will get you to the next level, but only imagination will take you to the level you really want to find.

I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.