It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.

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

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.