There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

History is only gossip.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.