The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.