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.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

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

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.