In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

Dignity is an anachronism.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.