Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

A yawn is a silent shout.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

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

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.