Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.

But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.

It was only in the theatre that I lived