A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.

So many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers!.

When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.