The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.

It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.