I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on; change the angle; look at it in a different way tomorrow.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal state for me is some form of Socialism, which doesn't yet exist, as far as I know, which doesn't repress the arts, or any race. Consequently I'm not a political person ... except that I'm a revolutionary.

You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.