"They have hyped up HIV into this super-rapist but in reality the damn thing can hardly get an erection."

"The significance of that 'absolute commandment', know thyself — whether we look at it in itself or under the historical circumstances of its first utterance — is not to promote mere self-knowledge in …"

"as a child sometimes. People think I'm like Machiavelli. And yet I'm an even bigger sucker than Machiavelli was... In diplomatic manoevering, I seem devious and diabolical in my intentions, when in re…"

"A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally, both in mind and body, as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured, as being a citizen of the best-org…"

"Feeling does not succeed in converting consolation into truth, nor does reason succeed in converting truth into consolation."