Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.