God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.