There's no tyrant like a brain.

There are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, emasculating than wanting to be liked ... "not nice!" ... that does it, you're free!.

I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave.

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength.

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.