H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.

Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.

Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.

Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Being single isn't a terminal disease.""Try telling that to my mother.

She left, never to return. I planted a tree and a seed each time I thought of her. I grew a small forest and a large garden and had no one to give the orchids to.

Buy laughter with tears, and you'll be rich forever.

Doing good for the sake of a heavenly reward is not an act of good, but a business transaction.

The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders, But I am no wolf by blood.

Getting clean made me grow up. I feel like all the years that I was using drugs, I wasn't growing as a person.

Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy women who like cheating people. That would be fair.