Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

At times I think and at times I am.