The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Try to be better than yourself.

...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.