He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.

You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like 'Finnegans Wake' and Picasso.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.