When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

When the State withers, humanity flowers.

A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.