there is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.

Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.