We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!