There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

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.

Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...

when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprint on earth

Making money is pretty pointless and it needs constant attention.

He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.

There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.

You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman.

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.

That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.