I don't know whether you've ever had a woman eat an apple while you were doing it. Well, you can imagine how that affects you.

What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Better to separate than never to marry.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.