If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.

I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.

One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.