By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.