Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.