Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.