Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Hope might grant you a wish in the nick of time, Cosmic Ordering grants them all the time.

Delight in the Lord and He will deliver you

The will to act is a renewable resource.

But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.

Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.

The center of the stage is where I am.

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.

Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.