A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Eats first, morals after.

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.