What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

Your future is dependent on your thought today, therefore think good and lovely thoughts now!

Protests can sometimes, necessarily, simplify things.

My attitude with covers is, make it your own or else leave it alone.

When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?

When you read that our heavenly home is similar to a bride, tell me, doesn't it make you want to go home.

A Every man has a king and a fool in him and the one you talk to reacts.

It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.

Falsehood is for a season.