If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.