Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

Styles in wit change so.