Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

I put the words down and push them a bit.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.