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

I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.

Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.

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

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

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.