Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.