I lie as truthfully as I can.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.