"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."

"One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence undismayed."

"To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."

"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits."

"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it."

"Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win."

"An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so."

"For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous."

"If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?"

"Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own."

"He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."

"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves."