I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.