A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.