You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

Past art is subject to change.

Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!