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.

Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

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

Time will say nothing but I told you so.

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.