“Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.”
“The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.”
“The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.”
“Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
“Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.”
“The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.”