The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.