For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.