As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.

An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.

Style means the right word. The rest matters little.

Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.

How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.