The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.

It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.