If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

A good poem about failure is a success.

And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.

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.