People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

Fathers and teachers, I ponder, 'What is hell?' I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

The stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hid…