We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.