Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.

The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

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