Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.

Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters.

It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.

Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives - but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can ensure that I will catch it.