I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes

When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.