The mistakes made by Congress wouldn’t be so bad if the next Congress didn’t keep trying to correct them.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn’t do anywhere else.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.