Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.
The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.
I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.