The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust

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.

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.