Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.