If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon—

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.

I've lied all my life. I'm just now learning how to tell the truth, and I'm not going to start playing games again, especially not with you.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

[G]lobal warming, that manufactured monomania.

If you're planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: 'I'm looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.'

The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform.