If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.

I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.