A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

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.

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.

Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.

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.

Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that.

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