It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.
Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer
I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things
If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living
I want faith; but I am faithless
I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion
It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care
I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense
I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich
I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some
It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick
Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.
You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance
Has every oyster a different taste?
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