It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.
Silence always gives consent.
The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.
I was x years old in the year x2.