If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.