No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

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

...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.