It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
To be adult is to be alone.