Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.

Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.

The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone in the quiet patio looking for some old untried illusion - some shadow on the whiteness of the wall some memory asleep on the stone rim of the fountain, perhaps in the air the light swish of some trailing gown.

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.

The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.