If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.