I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.