“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.

God made food; the devil the cooks.

Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.

A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!

There’s no friends like the old friends.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

Tokyo by night? Beautiful. Tokyo by Night Sight? Insane!

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Whenever you’re feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

I love my fans. They’re the most beautiful thing in the entire world for me. Every single thing I do is for them.