When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.

The further from one another, the nearer one can be.

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.