Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.