One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.