I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.