International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.