"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."
"I am too fond of reading books to care to write them."
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
"When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy."