Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.