Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

I look forward and see myself look back.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.