No being can make another one happy.

Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.

The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.