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

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

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.

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.