Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.