Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.