The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

A study of the Great Malady; horror of home.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.