Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.

Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.

The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!