Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe.

You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife is as high a love as that he feltfor his mother or sister.

With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there.