The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

What's matter of importance is that if you can make your ownself laugh and smile.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow in order to lead.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

It was the straying that found the path direct.

Why see the world / when you got the beach?

Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up concept some marketing whizkid conceived to get comics on the shelves of bookstores.

Hey, over the years you learn to forget things.

To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.