Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

The lie is a condition of life.

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

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!

Master-morality and Slave-morality.