If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

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

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.