Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.