Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.