The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

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

Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.

What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.