men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?

It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face.

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.