A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth.

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.

Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.

Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.

Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.