Very few of us are what we seem..

He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ….

He laughs best who laughs at the end..

It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterward….

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world..

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave..

Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed..

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one..

Things never come when they are expected..

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself..

Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it..

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite..

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunat….

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations..

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it..

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it..

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffer….

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true..

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books..

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a ….