Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.