A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.

The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.