When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.