Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.