Life is fragile and absurd.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If feelings bring people nearer to the religion's ideal... they are good; if these estrange them from it, and oppose it, they are bad.