I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.