“How often when they find a sage As sweet as Socrates or PlatoThey hand him hemlock for his wageOr bake him like a sweet potato!-Taking the Longer View”

“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?”

“The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.”

“Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella”

“Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

“If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.”

“I never think at all when I writenobody can do two things at the same timeand do them both well”