Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

You got to live before you can afford to die.

A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.

What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.