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

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?

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

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

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.