Let me listen to me and not to them.

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.

A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.