If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.