"Thoughts come through people, not from them."

"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."

"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."

"The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment."

"How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine."

"It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice."

"Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed."

"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

"it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards."

"You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong."

"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated."