If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that’s read by persons who move their lips when they’re reading to themselves.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.

Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday

i have had my ups and downsbut wotthehell wotthehellyesterday sceptres and crownsfried oysters and velvet gownsand today i herd with bumsbut wotthehell wotthehelli wake the world from sleepas i caper and sing and leapwhen i...

my master is the same as godwhen he thumps with his handpeople bring us hamburg steaksat any eating stand “pete s holiday

fire is beautifuland we know that if we gettoo close it will kill usbut what does that matterit is better to be happy for a momentand be burned up with beautythan to live a long...

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child’s parent or grandparent.

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

it wont be long now it wont be longman is making deserts of the earthit wont be long nowbefore man will have used it upso that nothing but antsand centipedes and scorpionscan find a living...

they thought they were heroes when they were only cinders in the eye of humanity too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of irritation they are able to...

From ‘the lesson of the moth’:and before i could argue himout of his philosophyhe went and immolated himselfon a patent cigar lighteri do not agree with himmyself i would rather havehalf the happiness and twicethe...

An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it.

a spider and a flyi heard a spiderand a fly arguingwait said the flydo not eat mei serve a great purposein the worldyou will have toshow me said the spideri scurry aroundgutters and sewersand garbage...

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.