Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.

By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself. He believed it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care (saving them for later use, that is), seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments.