Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead.

Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.

What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

Writing well is the best revenge.

Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.

Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.