There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

A lie never lives to be old.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!