You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.