My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.