Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.