A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.

I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

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

The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.