The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.