When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

We fear something before we hate.

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.