The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love. In the morning mist, hazy and amorous, London was delirious. London squinted as it floated along, milky pink, without caring where it was going.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.