There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.