I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.