I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let's not try to be witty, but record the worst of human viciousness we've seen without changing one word. When that's done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That's work enough for a lifetime.

All in all, death is something like marriage.

All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.

Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.