I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.
Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living.
Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of Eden, the hand that raised up obscenities and blasphemies. Man was the pariah-dog, the moral leper in this translucent mirror of Heaven. He was the muddier of crystal waters, the despoiler of forests, the murderer of the innocent, the challenger against God. He was the assassin of the saints and the prophets, for they spoke of what he WOULD NOT HEAR, in the darkness of his spirit!
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
I converse with my dog through ESP
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world
I often reread books I have written
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
God's 'failures' are really man's failures.
I am the skeptic of skeptics.
'He is very ugly,' said his mother.
The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation
The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's.
The world is a penal institution.
I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
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