Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.