Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.