The smallest errors are always the best.

The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.