Money is a most important thing in the world.

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

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?

You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.