Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
The most sincere form of love is love for food.
I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.
If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.