My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

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

Better never than late.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.