Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.

Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.