The more we know, the better our intuitions.

A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.

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.

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