Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.

When you truly face your pain you will only see yourself. Your fear was always you.

Happy is very abstract, you can't touch it.

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?

Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.

So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all.