There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.

Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.