Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.