Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.

When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row." "There are some real weirdos down there." "They're everywhere.

I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.

When you're writing‚ you're conjuring. It's a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.

Get thee to a nunnery.