charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

Real life seems to have no plots.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

Look past our kinship, and towards a romantic relationship!

Never dismiss anyone's value until you know him.

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.

There's a lot of cynicism. Let's really enjoy Christmas, with all that's going on in the world.

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

Be enlightened for you, just for you. No one else knows or cares. They crucified Christ, you know. They don't take real well, on this planet, to the people who see things differently.

All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious.