Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.