Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
I build only living stones--men.
Machination is worth more than force.
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
No clock is more regular than the belly.
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny
It is clear that our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education, to be better developed than the present one.
Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.