The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.