Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.