Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.

Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!