Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

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.

I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?

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

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.