Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

One must speak about serious things seriously.

In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.