When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

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.

In a science fiction novel, the world is a character, and often the most important character.In a mainstream novel, the world is implicitly our world, and the characters are the world.

We have tools at our disposal to use or not to use…it’s a choice.

I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.

I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

In Spain there's the king - and then there's Antonio.

Believe in yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, you can't accomplish your goals. Know that you can do anything and anything will happen.

Before I had kids, I was out every night of the week.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in 'The Iron Lady.'

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.