The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain.

The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign.

I hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense.

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.