Theories have nothing to do with life.

I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.