What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.