It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.