Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals