Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

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

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

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

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

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

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

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.