I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

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

Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.