There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.