Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

Strange is the influence of Marx on character.

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

The more we know, the better our intuitions.