In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.

The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.