“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

To define is to limit.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.