Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.