“Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.”

“It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.”

“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”

“Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life? ”

“Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.”

“The absence of a flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ”

“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”