Nelson Rodrigues

It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.

A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

Money buys everything, even true love.

Every shy person is a potential sex offender.

I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.

Unanimity is always stupid.

To be the best in the world in anything, even 'long distance spitting', implies a grave, heavy and suffocating responsibility.

Saturday is an illusion.

Love is impossible without bite marks.

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.

To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.

Sex education should only be taught by veterinarians.

I am, and have always been, a pornographic angel.