Normality quotes

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their figures perfect; there's no hiccoughing or bad breath, no fatigue or boredom, no sudden recollections of unpaid bills or business letters unanswered, to interrupt the raptures. Art gives you the sensation, the thought, the feeling quite pure--chemically pure, I mean,... not morally.

Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I always go all-out with my costumes.

How could you forget someone you loved even if I did rip his heart to shreds?

Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued,

Yes, exactly. I think that Christmas is always used at any point in the year to cheer us up, like each other up. We would use that to cheer each other up if we were in a sad mood or something, we'd just start talking about Christmas.