A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.