Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.

I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.

It’s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don’t weep, do you?