Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.