Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

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.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

A shilling life will give you all the facts.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.