Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.