When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

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.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.

I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the whirl of the vortex sucking me slowly, irresistibly, inescapably into itself.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

We're living in a technological world. You cannot tell me we can't do a better job getting that information.

Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.

I've always found it very... sanitary to be broke.

Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.