Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

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

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.