“Let no one destitute of Geometry enter my doors.”

“On Plato’s door, it says let no one enter who does not know geometry. On Love’s door, it says let no one enter who does not know cry!”

“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”

“You’ve gotta give them hope. If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door”

“...poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know that drunkenness too is not a virtue and that's even truer. But destitution, dear sir, destitution is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul , but in destitution-never-no-one. For destitution a man is not chased out of society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, for in destitution I am the first to humiliate my self.”

“One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.”