"I am not at all sure that I am a popular person. But I am certainly a person who attracts a great deal of attention."

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

"I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effects of intoxication."

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

"I dislike everything that is not in good taste, and good taste is simply the art of being able to live with bad taste."