It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

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.

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

You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it. But you'll be astounded to learn what the sea will do.' What do you mean?' she smiled. Well, love isn't a good sailor and it languishes on a sea voyage. You'll be surprised when you have the Atlantic between you and Larry to find how slight the pang is that before you sailed seemed intolerable.

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.