Meanwhile myself et cetera lay quietly in the deep mud et cetera (dreaming, et cetera, of your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera.)

mr youse needn't be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man's solid bliss for youse ideas i'll match youse a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues

Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.

Nothing recedes like progress.

No evil is so worse than worst you fall in hate with love.

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.