Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.