To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.