Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.