Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.

I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for not working out a deal with Him, then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.