It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.