The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

We all carry fault within.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.