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.

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

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

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.