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

I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again.

Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.

Women always have some mental reservation.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

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