Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.

I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not need morals, it needs beer... The souls of men have been fed with indigestibles, but the soul could make use of beer.

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.