Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.