In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.

Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.