I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.