Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.