Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.