The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

Religion is the opium of the poor.