There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.