The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.