Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

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

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.

There are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, emasculating than wanting to be liked ... "not nice!" ... that does it, you're free!.

Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!