One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.

To be human is erroneous.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.