"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level."
"The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life."
"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic."
"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes."
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing."