If you want to write, keep cats.

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.