The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life..

Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch..

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum..

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invent….

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for..

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life..

If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late..

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood..

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune..

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody..

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible..

Only the mediocre are always at their best..

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greate….

I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a….

Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other by their skins, their language, their smell; always jea….

Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!.

Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you..

Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion..

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips..

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom..

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away..