“The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in some serious way, and on the honour of a gentleman, there is not one single serious word in it.”
“A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.”
“I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously”
“This book made me feel strangely awkward, because I'm afraid of finding my own story in it. I take books too seriously.”
“No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.”
“Somehow, at some point, I'd developed a serious problem. I'd started handling every single situation exactly the way it shouldn't be handled.”