To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

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

In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

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.