The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.