Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.

I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.