It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.