The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.

It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.

Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.

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

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 tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.