Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever.

There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.

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.

Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.

Old age and youth cannot live together.

Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.