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

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.