What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

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.

Necessity knows no rules.

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

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.

He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.