Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.