You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.