They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.