You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

To ask the hard question is simple.