I am not for women but against men.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

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

In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

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.

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

How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.