Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.