Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.