Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say

If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life

The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.

Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith