There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.

You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.

I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.