» Every decision you make is a mistake.
» A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
» Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
» Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
» Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
» When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
» Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.
» One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
» What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
» The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.