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

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.