The most interesting things are always happening behind one.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls.

Anything that consoles is fake.