I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. If all you can see is your shadow, you're blocking your own light. If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

Very few people look the part and are it too.

Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we should never need solace.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.

In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.