War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.

the sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels.

... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.