Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.

That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.