You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once‚ at least‚ the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.