Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.