No being can make another one happy.

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.