We fear something before we hate.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when the telephone rings. Such a passion can be kept at its early strength only by adding to it either more and more unhappiness (jealousy, separation, doubt, renunciation), or more and more artificiality (drink, technique, stage-illusions). Whoever has missed this has never lived, who lives for it alone is but partly alive.

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.