If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.