A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.