We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her; and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?

Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

The more we know, the better our intuitions.

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

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.