There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

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

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.