Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

In the end, everything is a gag.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.