I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.