The simplification of anything is always sensational.

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.