I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Life is too short to be in a hurry.