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.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

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.

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

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time