My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.