You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.

Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.

Old age and youth cannot live together.

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.