You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.