I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.