they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.