Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.

Rien n'empeche tant d'etre naturel que l'envie de le paraitre.

He was just a young man who'd come to town on a donkey, bored to death or something, who'd taken advantage of the chance to be entertained by a small-town kid …

But here I stop-short of any deterministic speculation that attributes specific behaviors to the possession of specific altruist or opportunist genes. Our gene…