Wisdom comes with winters

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

Authority is quite degrading.

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.