Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.

What is privacy if not for invading?

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

I go wherever my fare is paid.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.