Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.

I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.