music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

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

Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.