I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me.

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

Time was away and somewhere else, There were two glasses and two chairs And two people with one pulse.

A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.

It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.

The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various.

None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

World is suddener than we fancy it.

There is only one thing to learn and that is how to love and how to be loved.

The secret of being happy is not longing for it!

Christmas was an intentionally intentional decision of the greatest sort ever devised that would result in the greatest cost ever conceived

MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.

We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie [Humphrey Bogart], James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart [James Stewart].

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.