You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.

Justice is what you get when you run out of money.

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.

The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.

The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.