I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

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

Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.

Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.