If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him one little pet. He is my household's guardian soul; He judges, he presides, inspires All matters in his royal realm; Might he be fairy? or a god? When my eyes, to this cat I love Drawn as by a magnet's force, Turn tamely back upon that appeal, And when I look within myself, I notice with astonishment The fire of his opal eyes, Clear beacons glowing, living jewels, Taking my measure, steadily.