I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

America is not a country, it is a world.

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.