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

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.