The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.