There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.

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

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.