Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.