A woman is a hunter without a forest.

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.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.