I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.