He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

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

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.