Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!

...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed in its own complexity; the humorous-tragic questionings of the universe; the delicious travel-pictures and fantasies; the lucid criticisms of art, and politics, and philosophy, informed with malicious wisdom, shimmering with poetry and wit.

O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.

I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!