'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

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

Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.

If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being.

To make one, there must be two.

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers