I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite.

The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.