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.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

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

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

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 greatest human happiness.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

But you're the only one, Scarlet. You'll always be the only one.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner v

Darwinian evolution has obviously not had enough time to work.

Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

Mental health is one of the biggest concerns, because now police are having to handle a lot of really difficult mental health problems on the street.

Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.