In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.

Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.

The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.