I look forward to the day when a Mongolian idiot, treated bio-chemically, becomes a successful geneticist.

This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long.

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

Repress the natural and it comes back even stronger: not everyone can be a fetishist

Maupassant is a man of mitigating circumstances, the lawyer who can bring the jurors around by demonstrating that they too could have committed such a crime. We are all murderers.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.