Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.

It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.

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.

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.