My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.

Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.