"The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own"
"Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell"
"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest"
"Learn from your dreams what you lack"
"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"
"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good"
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh"
"Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores"
"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"
