“Silks" ... "China" ... "Men's Suits" ... but what about canes? ... or crutches? "Oh, certainly ... yes, yes, of course ... third floor ...”

“It happened, you see, after the war, when I saw people making money while the others were dying in the trenches. You saw it and you couldn't do anything about it. Then later I was at the League of Nations, and there I saw the light. I really saw the world was ruled by the Golden Calf, by Mammon! Oh, no kidding! Implacably. Social consciousness certainly came to me late.”

“It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.”

“I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”

“An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.”

“The coldest most rational scientific madness is also the most intolerable. But when a man has acquired a certain ability to subsist, even rather scantily, in a certain niche with the help of a few grimaces, he must either keep at it or resign himself to dying the death of a guinea pig. Habits are acquired more quickly than courage, especially the habit of filling one's stomach.”

“There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don't even try to understand what we're here for. They just don't care.”