The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.