Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Nothing in life is guaranteed except change, but I guess that could change.

114 isn't as old as it used to be they say its the new 104.

I might be old and ugly now, but you started that way, Jack.

Once upon a time I was falling in love. Now I'm only falling apart.

I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There's a beauty to making a great deal. It's my canvas. And I like painting it.

Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster.

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.