We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.

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.

Football management is such a pressurized thing - horse racing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

If you are having problems with money, the answer isn't cutting back. The answer is to make more money.

It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.

Unless one can think wisely it is better to remain a dummy.

For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

We're man enough to step in there and fight our hearts out and you have to be man enough to deal with a loss.

I'd suggest putting your head between your knees, but I think that's physically impossible for you at the moment.

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.