A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.