It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.

Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.