A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.