Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

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.

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

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak, cursed by the drivers of motor cars and buses, dodging the butcher's bicycle, coming safe to the kerb and bellying under its home gate.

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

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