Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

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.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

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

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.