A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.