I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.