I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.