Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.