I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

If there is no God, then I am God.

Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.