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.

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?