Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into Episcopal behinds

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situation. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help us, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human