Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.