There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, 'Garcon! Un Pernod!'

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.

This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.