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.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

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

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.