The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.