When in doubt, choose greatness.

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.

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

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

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

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.