“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”
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“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”
Source: Selected Letters

“Isn't it funny
How a bear likes honey?
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
I wonder why he does?”
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

“If the Jews win this battle, then the Arabs had better go bury their faces in the mud!”
[Middle East: What to Do About Germany, TIME, Friday, Mar. 19, 1965, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,833554,00.html, September 6, 2011]
Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), pp. 151-152

“Declamation roared, while Passion slept.”
Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre (1747)
Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6