A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
