There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.

he [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying.

In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action.

Love is bliss only if you are a giver, not otherwise.

Let there be room left in your heart for the unimaginable ~ serendipity has a way of showing itself just when you feel like giving up.

He should make you smile...always...and when he makes you cry it should be out of passion! ‪

I've got a feeling, you know, that pensioners talk in a very different way when their kids and grandkids, aren't around.

In the early stages of the fight Mr. Winston Churchill spoke with affectionate raillery of me and my "Chicks." He could have said nothing to make me more proud; every Chick was needed before the end.

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

I'd love to do a play a year, if I'm honest, but it depends what comes up. But I do love theatre and it's very different from TV and film, not better or worse.

I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me.