It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.