Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.

Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a meaning; at least, for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.