Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her

My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.