An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.