Morals are a luxury of the rich.

He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.