The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.