when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.