I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.