You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.