A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep my soul.

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.