Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.