I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

The great trues are too important to be new.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.