We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.