Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

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.

Since the world is ending, ” Peter quoted from behind us, “why not let the children touch the paintings?

Work as if there's no one to help you, and learn as if everybody is with you.

A man can smell a woman's sadness

How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?

Evil is done by the living.

I love actors, and I'm very protective of them. I trust them. It's a mutual trust.

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.

Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it.