We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

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.

Even if toxic people are right about what is "good, " they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.

Life is too short to listen to fools, and too important to ignore the wise.

Harry, my wand!

My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.

The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm’s length.

I think it is important to pass on the message to young people who are going through a difficult time with friends that it will pass.

Whenever I do something I give it 100%.

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.

Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.