I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Death: To stop sinning suddenly.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell.

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.

Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

The police.....always wanting to play games.

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.