The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

Time is a waste of money.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

The highest level of success every moment is ‘being alive

Without new ideas success can become stale

When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much more obvious than comics.

There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge.

When you see something bad happening out in the world, you should try to help in whatever way you can.

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.