The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.

I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization.

I early learned that there were two natures in me. This caused me a great deal of trouble, till I worked out a philosophy of life and struck a compromise between the flesh and the spirit. Too great an ascendancy of either was to be abnormal, and since normality is almost a fetish of mine, I finally succeeded in balancing both natures. Ordinarily they are at equilibrium; yet as frequently as one is permitted to run rampant, so is the other. I have small regard for an utter brute or for an utter saint.

I would rather be ashes than dust.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.