I want faith; but I am faithless

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer

I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.

What must not be read must not be written

I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms.

Lifelong pain, an unwanted pregnancy, and even death may be the reward for such a brief window of pleasure. What a foolish gamble!

The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

When you think an angry thought about someone, it's like hitting them.

Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever.

He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.

Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.