I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

Only art means anything.

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.