The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.