Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else.

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.