The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guiltie of dust and sin.
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.
I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.
I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.
Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.
A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.
Without the door let sorrow lie, And if for cold it hap to die, We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie, And evermore be merry.
I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.
I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together.
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.
