The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.