To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

I would prefer not to.

Nippers was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man of about five and twenty. I always deemed him the victim of two evil powers — ambition and indigestion.

Only you can succeed in converting your values into product can you win the battle against time

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Knowing where you have come from is important in forming an idea of where you want to go.

A man with no enemies is no good as a friend.

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.

I am a novelist at heart.