Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.