Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

The only consistent people are the dead

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.