The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.