Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.

When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.

You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.