If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.

A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.