I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.