Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.

A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.