All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

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

Effective action is always unjust.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.