It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure