Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.