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

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

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.

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

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

Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.