Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?