The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

I want to be all used up when I die.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.