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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Aldous Huxley

The proper study of mankind is books.

Aldous Huxley

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

Djuna Barnes

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

Don DeLillo

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

Don DeLillo

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

Donna Tartt

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Elizabeth Bowen

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

Erica Jong

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

George Gissing

My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.

Jack Higgins

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

Richard Bach

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Thomas Hardy

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

William Styron

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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