The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.