Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

The imagination is man's power over nature.