The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

The great events of the world take place in the brain.

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.