The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.