The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains.

It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.