In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.