The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.

To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.

I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.

He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.