I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

To be a champion you must live like one.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.