Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?