Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.