This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.

It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.