Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.