“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”

“Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.”

“There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.”

“All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.”

“The most dangerous food is wedding cake.”

“Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.”

“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti.”