Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

Drama is based on the Mistake.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.

To make one, there must be two.

If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.